"Is there still someone looting?" Chu Xunyu couldn't help but think when he saw a high-rise building on fire in the distance.

"No, sir. A soldier next to him replied that he used to be Zhang Shicheng's subordinate, and later defected, "That is Zhang Jiusi's wife, I heard that she couldn't bear to be humiliated, so she committed suicide." ”

"Committed suicide?" Chu Xunyu was stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "It's not good! Zhang Shicheng will do the same, hurry up and follow me to arrest him!"

As soon as Niu Tieta heard the spirit, he flew up directly in the sky and shouted: "Zhang Jiusi wants to die like this? It's too cheap for him? Niu Ye, I haven't settled the account of this rotten meat, I was worried that I couldn't find where he was, but now I jumped out directly, great, I'll go!"

Chu Xunyu hurriedly flew up, he knew Niu Tieta's means, if Zhang Shicheng was taken by him, he was afraid that he would be skinned and cramped, so he hurriedly chased after him to stop him, but as soon as he flew closer, he fell to the ground, and he saw Sun Mengxuan leading someone to escort a middle-aged man with a cloak and a distracted look to come out, this person was wearing a delicate dragon robe, of course, at this time, he was also filthy, and his face was emaciated, I am afraid he was Zhang Shicheng.

As soon as Niu Tieta saw Sun Mengxuan, he was immediately much more honest, and did not dare to make a time, Sun Mengxuan's prestige and fame shocked the three armies, and the cultivation was not only higher than Niu Tieta, but also the way to use soldiers, this siege battle belonged to Sun Mengxuan's department with the smallest casualties, Sun Mengxuan used soldiers to be cautious, and won the true legend of the soldiers, which Chu Xunyu understands, every time there is a war, you must first use the cavalry of light and fast riding as the vanguard to explore the truth and reality, fight quickly and go, and plan well, find out the flaws of the enemy before leading the army to attack, so this siege war, because you did not find the flaws in Pingjiang City, she has been attacking tentatively, and her strength has been preserved at least about eighty。

Sun Mengxuan stood in front of the captured Zhang Shicheng with a calm face, and asked coldly, "You are Zhang Shicheng?"

Zhang Shicheng glanced up at him, and suddenly broke free from the left and right and hit the pillar, a man rushed out from behind Sun Mengxuan, hugged him tightly, and cried and shouted: "Ninety-four heroes, aren't you afraid to save your life?" Chu Xunyu recognized that this person was Li Bosheng, who turned out to be Zhang Shicheng's old department, and later took refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang, this time he has been persuaded to surrender during the siege in the name of Xu Da, and he and Zhang Shicheng have a very strong personal relationship.

Sun Mengxuan nodded lightly, then waved his hand to re-tie him up, walked in front of him and deliberately mocked Zhang Shicheng: "King of Eastern Wu, you are a hero, the brutal Yuanmeng party members in the past are afraid of three points when they hear your prestige, how can they be afraid of being captured today? As the saying goes, killing people is not enough to nod their heads, and strong men are also angry when they break their wrists, and they are finally a generation of heroic husbands." ”

Zhang Shicheng smiled bitterly, looked up at Sun Mengxuan, and only said one sentence: "Hate the sky and the sun and don't shine on me." With that, he left.

Looking at his bleak back, Sun Mengxuan ordered left and right: "It's also a hero of the past, you can't be lazy, food, clothing, housing and transportation must be arranged properly, if you wantonly find fault, insult or beat the assassin, behead!"

"Yes......" all the soldiers agreed.

With the capture of Zhang Shicheng, the south was completely dominated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and there was no decent warlord force to compete with him, Chu Xunyu walked aimlessly on the ruined streets, looking at the soldiers and embarrassed people coming and going in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh, when will such a troubled era come to an end, how many Han children have died in this battle today, they are born from the same root, why are they too anxious to fry each other, and the enemy should be the Yuanmeng forces.

However, after this battle, Jiangnan was pacified, and a region was recovered, and the people here could finally get rid of tyranny. Just thinking about it, Chu Xunyu suddenly walked to a dilapidated temple on the street, which was enshrined in a statue of Zhang Shicheng, but at this time it had been pushed down by the soldiers and shattered to the ground. Chu Xunyu secretly laughed to himself, why, do you still think that you are the ancestor of the Three Qing Dao? It's really funny.

Chu Xunyu saw that some Pingjiang people in the temple were afraid to go in and sit on the ground trembling, after the defeat, they were all refugees, among them there was a boy of seven or eight years old who was eating a few fennel beans to satisfy his hunger, so Chu Xunyu couldn't bear it, walked in, these refugees were so frightened that they hurriedly stood up, Chu Xunyu hurriedly motioned for everyone to sit, and he also sat next to the child casually, took out the meatloaf and handed it over, the child was greedy, and reached out to take it, but was pulled by the mother beside him, and he didn't dare to raise his head.

"Take it, it's fine. Chu Xunyu turned his head and looked around, and found that the dozen or so refugees around him were looking at him with eyes full of hunger and fear, and he couldn't bear it at the moment, so he took out the package, which contained a large amount of jerky and bread, as well as clear water, the siege of the city has reached ten months, the city has long been cut off from water and food, only relying on the surplus to satisfy hunger, even the war horses are killed and cooked, and the skin of these refugees can be sunken with his hand, the child was lifted by Chu Xunyu with his hand to see that the ribs were thin and out of shape, as if there was a skin stretched outside, in the days of being trapped, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to send letters to persuade him to surrender several times, Zhang Shicheng swore to die, looking at the tragic situation of these refugees now, Chu Xunyu was extremely angry, how can he, Zhang Shicheng, be like this, such a half-grown child, can he accompany him to be martyred for this illusory imperial dream?

Seeing Chu Xunyu take out so much food, everyone hesitated for a while, and finally someone stretched out his hand and carefully came to get it, Chu Xunyu distributed the things to everyone, not much, Chu Xunyu did it on purpose, he told everyone: "You have been hungry for so long, you can't overeat at one time, otherwise you will be strangled to death, eat less and eat more meals to make your body recover." ”

The refugees nodded, bowed their heads and chewed up, Chu Xunyu looked at these refugees, their hands and feet were chapped and their eyes were bloodshot, and they grabbed food with their palms full of black and gray to eat. ”

As a result, as soon as these words came out, I didn't expect these people to stop the food in their hands, look at each other, and then put down the food in their hands, it seemed that they couldn't eat anymore, only the child didn't understand anything, and continued to eat, Chu Xunyu was very puzzled, so he asked: "What? Don't you hate Zhang Shicheng? He made you like this, you don't want him to die?"

"Actually...... In fact...... He's good to us......" The child's mother muttered in a low voice, but a man behind her immediately pulled down the corner of her clothes and signaled her not to speak for Zhang Shicheng, so as not to make Chu Xunyu unhappy and killed.

"What?" Chu Xunyu was a little stunned, he didn't expect these people whose families were ruined to say this, and asked curiously, "Are you joking?"

Seeing that no one around dared to answer his question, Chu Xunyu understood what was going on, so he gestured to his waist card, which was the captain's waist card, and then made up a lie to tell them: " Everyone has seen it, the official position is not low, this time Zhang Shicheng was captured alive by us, whether he is dead or alive will be decided in the future public trial, he recruited beautiful women, expropriated tyranny, built a large number of buildings, and greedy for pleasure are indisputable facts, all evil and no good, his crime should be punished, but you seem to have an inexhaustible meaning, you can say it and listen to me, when he is tried in the future, so that the world can understand what kind of person he is, good is good, evil is evil, if the sin does not lead to death, it can also open the net. ”

These refugees looked left and right, and they didn't know whether to believe it or not, Chu Xunyu repeatedly comforted, and finally someone spoke, and said the reason in a gossipy, it turned out that it was not Zhang Shicheng who refused to surrender, but that most of the soldiers and civilians in the city jointly wrote a letter, willing to live and die with Pingjiang City, advance and retreat together, and everyone was unwilling to surrender.

"How is that possible?" Chu Xunyu couldn't believe it, "Why? Isn't he a scourge to the people? Why did you die with him?"

"Who said that?" one of them replied in a whisper from behind, "It is the imperial court, you, not Zhang Shicheng, who have harmed us." ”

"What?"

Everyone has said their experiences over the years, since ancient times the richest in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and rice markets, Baixin the world's abundance, here is the granary of the entire imperial court, so that there are also other industries, including breeding, fishing, Weaving, etc., has become a rich side of the area, so since the Yuan and Mongolian Dynasty came to power, they were afraid that this place would be used by the Han people as a place of revolt, so they were strictly controlled here, and heavy taxes were imposed, and all the taxes to be paid by the people of Jiangnan were more than three times more than those in other places, and it was strictly forbidden to hide weapons privately, and to control the children of the Han people to study, to prevent them from inspiring the idea of rebellion, and every year to contribute thousands of white and tender girls from the south of the Yangtze River to the Yuan capital for the Yuan and Mongolian nobles to amuse, the slightest disobedience, they were tortured to death, so over the years, the people of Jiangnan who seemed to be rich, in fact, had a miserable life, and every household only barely survived food, but the daughter of mortal birth, did not dare to show his head easily, lest he be found out by the Yuanmeng nobles and ruined by his beauty.

But all this changed in the hands of Zhang Shicheng, after Zhang Shicheng arrived with the first batch of rebel troops, killed dog officials, opened granaries, drove away the Yuan and Mongolian forces, established the regime of the Eastern Wu king, showed grace to the people, and promulgated the "Nongsang Order" and "Xingxue Order" At the same time, we can vigorously set up education, so that children can have books to read, have to go to school, open up the imperial examination, reuse the children of reading, all kinds of actions, so that the people of Jiangnan are like a spring breeze, such as drinking sweet rain, as for saying that he married many wives as concubines, to tell the truth, the people do not care at all, some people are also very happy to marry their daughters to this grass-headed son, he has always been open-minded, never forced women, treat people generously, marrying him may be a good thing, and Zhang Shicheng can marry several wives aloneEven if you add up all the power of the entire King of Eastern Wu, how many nobles can you want, and how many women? To tell the truth, it is much better than sending thousands of daughters to the north every family every year to serve as slaves and live a life that is worse than death, so the people read their kindness and take the initiative to build a temple to worship, and now the temple where Chu Xunyu is located is a place, and the people can't bear to be destroyed such a good day, so they swear to follow, speaking of which, there are still people crying, picking up the head of the statue of Zhang Shicheng on the ground, wiping it clean, and putting it back on the table, compared to this, Zhu Yuanzhang's army besieged the city, and it was a bad thing to kill in the dark, which made Chu Xunyu stunned, and never expected such an ending。

"My lord, can you say something good for the king of Eastern Wu?" someone asked Chu Xunyu carefully.

Chu Xunyu bowed his head and was silent, he didn't know what to say, Zhang Shicheng had heard of the sage back then, but he didn't expect it to be like this, so that the people were grateful to Dade and swore to follow him to the death, but he hated why he succumbed to the powerful, and in the later stage, he couldn't help but be depressed against the yuan, and surrendered to the court, this is what makes the people of the world angry, perhaps, the hero's life is like this, the reputation is all over the world, and it is also slanderous all over the world.

Chu Xunyu thought about it for a few days, and decided to go back to Jiankang to find Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen and Zhu Sheng, and explain clearly Zhang Shicheng's merits and demerits, whether he is alive or dead, he must have a good name in the world, and leave a fair name in the world, as a result, all this is gone, Xu Da ordered someone to escort Zhang Shicheng back to Jiankang by water, he has been on a hunger strike in the boat, after returning to Jiankang City, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Li Shanchang several times to persuade him to surrender, Zhang Shicheng still did not obey, and finally, on a lonely night in the shadow of a moon, he hanged himself in the prison cell, accompanied his wife and children to go together, and walked through his vigorous army for 14 years, this former hero of the troubled times who supported the armyAfter being captured, he was indomitable and self-reliant, leaving to future generations the back of the bold and open-minded man back then, and it can be regarded as the name of a generation of heroes.

After his death, according to his wishes, buried outside the city of Pingjiang in Suzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang brought people to see him for the last time, thinking about the time when Zhu Yuanzhang raised the army, the soldiers were few and far between, and he was also funded, this kindness was known to everyone in the army of the King of Western Wu, but he hated to surrender to Yuanmeng in his later years, helped to abuse, and also attacked the Han rebel army. was born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other, this is Liu Bowen's quotation of Cao Zijian's poems to evaluate his later years. Zhang Shicheng said that the heavens helped Zhu and did not help him, he was wrong, not because of bad luck, but because he hurt himself, and became a victim of the "inducement peace" policy of the Yuan and Mongolian courts, a short-sighted and pathetic victim.

Chu Xunyu turned around and left, followed the mighty march of the army, and once again embarked on the endless beacon fire conquest road......